NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 460

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 AMD Radeon RX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

656 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460 +245%

2.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon RX 460

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 200

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

240

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.150 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.150 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

134.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Baffin

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Baffin PRO

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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